126. So what? What an odd rational...

Look at the responses in this thread. Rational people tend to treat vote fixing theories as crazy conspiracies that are too audacious to believe. Why would elected officials be any different, especially when any opinion to the contrary would open them up to public ridicule. I'd say they would be less likely to complain than your average citizen.

I've always wondered about the 2004 Ohio vote fixing because I am an IT professional and normally when something like that comes out, the technical explanations don't make sense and sound like they are written by people who do not understand technology. After reading about the Ohio case, my impression was "Well, that's certainly plausible." A plausible technical explanation doesn't mean it happened, but it doesn't rule it out either. This is why I would like to see someone like Silver weigh in on the situation from a statistical perspective.

To answer your question, of course I would believe him. I've been following Nate Silver's blog for a while now and I believe in math.